| 1 | Characters in the ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Bait and Switch|STO}}''. |
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| 5 | [[folder:Crew of the USS ''Bajor'' [=NCC-97238=]]] |
| 6 | !!Captain Kanril Eleya |
| 7 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kanril_eleya_captain_4286.png]] |
| 8 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"My name is Eleya. Kanril Eleya. I'm Bajoran born, Federation bred, and I'm a Starfleet captain."'']] |
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| 10 | -> '''Gender and Species:''' Bajoran female\ |
| 11 | '''Homeworld:''' Bajor\ |
| 12 | '''Position:''' Commanding Officer\ |
| 13 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/JenniferHale |
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| 15 | The main character. Formerly a non-commissioned space weapons technician in the Bajoran Militia, she was nearly killed defending sickbay on the Bajoran frigate ''Kira Nerys'' and was awarded the Silver Cross for her bravery. She attended Starfleet Academy after the Militia decommissioned the last of its ships. After graduating she served two uneventful tours on patrol duty near the Romulan border as first shift assistant tactical officer, then six months assigned to Deep Space 9 as assistant liaison officer to the Bajoran Militia, before transferring to the ''[=ShiKahr=]''-class USS ''Kagoshima'' as second shift weapons officer. |
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| 17 | During the Borg attack at Vega Colony Eleya was sent over to the USS ''Khitomer'' to help repel boarders and get the ship repaired. Upon her return she discovered to her horror that the Borg had killed or assimilated the ship's entire command staff, leaving her, as the seniormost lieutenant junior grade afloat, the acting captain. She took command and helped get most of the fleet to safety. Two years and a meteoric rise through the ranks later, she's the captain of the USS ''Bajor''. |
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| 19 | [[http://memory-gamma.wikia.com/wiki/Kanril_Eleya Has a full bio here.]] |
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| 22 | * ActionGirl: Starfleet tactical officer with both hand-to-hand and advanced weapons training. |
| 23 | * BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:In a couple of far-future stories, it's evident that she ultimately lived a very hard life, with one of her sons dying in battle under her command and her daughter becoming estranged from her for many years, but her marriage stayed together and she ultimately lived to retire from Starfleet and died of natural causes at the ripe old age of 139.]] |
| 24 | * BlackSheep: Her family is decidedly blue-collar normal -- her parents are town maintenance workers and her sister's a teacher married to a priest -- and she joined the Bajoran Militia specifically because she didn't want that life. |
| 25 | * BookDumb: By her own admission, she's a soldier, not a scientist or diplomat. She's not stupid but she tends to need a LaymansTerms explanation for {{technobabble}}. As an example, she can't make heads or tails of some sensor readouts in ''Fanfic/AVoiceInTheWilderness'', but she does know general stuff like what a radioactive half-life is and what kind of planet they're looking at. |
| 26 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: She's a good seat-of-the-pants tactician and has been known to pull off wins (or near-wins in the case of the KobayashiMaru) that by rights shouldn't have happened. She also has a hair-trigger temper, frequently mouths off to superior officers, and in general acts a lot more like the enlisted grunt she started as than the Starfleet officer she's become. |
| 27 | * CareerNotTaken: In ''Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack'', her CO suggests a couple of options for her future military career with the Bajoran Militia Space Arm being dissolved: muster out, or retrain for another specialty such as ground-pounder or peacekeeper. But when she comments that she wants to stay in space, the colonel shows her a tablet containing a pre-filled application to Starfleet Academy, which Eleya signs after thinking it over for a minute. "Fanfic/TheRoadNotTaken" depicts an AlternateTimeline where she ended up going to the Militia's officer school instead and is chief of security on Deep Space 9. |
| 28 | * TheCaptain: The author has described her in forum posts as a mix of Kirk and Sisko, with a generous helping of [[Franchise/MassEffect Paragade FemShep]]. She leads from the front and often acts more like a Marine grunt than a Picard-style Starfleet officer, which as PriorEnlisted she kinda is. |
| 29 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: She usually doesn't let anyone else see it, but she definitely feels the weight of command. |
| 30 | ** In ''Bait and Switch'' she discusses it in her internal monologue, mentioning that she feels guilty that she physically ''can't'' know every member of her crew because there's too many of them, and thus feels even more guilty when people she doesn't even know die on her orders. |
| 31 | ** In "An Anomalous Nightmare", the NegativeSpaceWedgie the ''Bajor'' is trapped in is exacerbating her normal self-doubts, causing a mild anxiety attack when she recalls the night she was stabbed. |
| 32 | ---> No. No. I am not going to break down. I’ve got people depending on me.\ |
| 33 | A small voice inside asks, Like your gun crew and the wounded murdered in their beds on the ''Kira Nerys'' depended on you? Like a hundred fifty-seven people on the ''George Hammond'' depended on you? Like the thirty-five killed on the ''Bajor'' in the last six months depended on you? |
| 34 | ** ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' has the following exchange between her and Gaarra. [[PreClimaxClimax They end up having a quickie to take her mind off it.]] |
| 35 | ---> '''Gaarra:''' Something’s wrong?\ |
| 36 | '''Eleya:''' Just pre-mission jitters, the usual.\ |
| 37 | '''Gaarra:''' You’re worried?\ |
| 38 | '''Eleya:''' I’m captain of the ship. It’s my job to be worried. |
| 39 | * CloningBodyParts: Her right kidney had to be replaced with a replicated copy after she was stabbed during the boarding action against the ''Kira''. |
| 40 | * CombatPragmatist: [[GroinAttack Crotch kicks]], blowing up cover to kill enemies with shrapnel, using her ship's navigational deflector as a bow ram... if there's a potential trick in her arsenal, she'll use it. In later stories and in the [[Fanfic/TheWarOfTheMasters Masterverse]] she's frequently referred to having defended a Federation colony against a Klingon invasion by building [=IEDs=]. |
| 41 | * CunningLinguist[=/=]{{Omniglot}}: At minimum she speaks English and several Bajoran dialects fluently and can recognize some human accents, and "Fanfic/TheUniverseDoesntCheat" states that she had to pass a proficiency test in Klingonese and Cardassian to qualify for offworld service when she was in the Militia. She's not perfect, though: Her ''[=tlhIngan Hol=]'' is described as "accurate, if badly accented" in "Universe" (though it's apparently improved by ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection''), while in "Fanfic/PastContinuous" Gul Tayben Berat notes that Eleya used the wrong pronoun case when greeting him in Cardassian. |
| 42 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Very much ''not'' cowed when Q (the original one, played by Creator/JohnDeLancie) turns up at the end of [[http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=16911271&postcount=18 "An Anomalous Nightmare"]]. She starts by yelling at him to "get the ''phekk'' off my desk!" and continues from there. |
| 43 | * DontCallMeSir: Despite Starfleet protocol being to use "sir" with superior officers, she tells Gaarra she prefers "Ma'am". The others variously call her "Captain", "Skipper", or by her first name. This develops into one of the series' {{Running Gag}}s, and in "Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack, Part II" we learn that it's because of her prior status as a non-commissioned officer. |
| 44 | -->"Oh, and don't call me 'sir'. I work for a living. Or I used to, at least." |
| 45 | * EthicalSlut: Aside from her having originally met her LoveInterest Gaarra by [[IntroductionByHookup picking him up in a bar]], we get hints of it in her younger years in ''Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack'': she baldly states that "sex is a lot of fun" and mentions having had a threesome with two Klingons at Starfleet Academy completely in passing. WordOfGod is that, though she doesn't cheat when she's in a relationship or try to seduce other people's partners, she enjoys recreational sex and doesn't have a problem sleeping around between relationships. |
| 46 | * {{Expy}}: {{Inverted}}. Despite the fact she commands a ''Galaxy''-class starship, the author has mentioned repeatedly she's intended to be the exact opposite of Picard: Female instead of male, openly religious instead of atheist, HotBlooded and coarse instead of calm and diplomatic, blue-collar PriorEnlisted instead of aristocratic career officer, BookDumb instead of intellectual... the list goes on. The author commented he actually based her on a blend of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries James T. Kirk]], [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Kira Nerys]], and [[Franchise/MassEffect Paragade FemShep]]. |
| 47 | * FieryRedhead: She's got a temper, takes something akin to Sisko's approach with Q (no Picard-like attempts to placate the omnipotent being; she makes it quite clear she isn't scared of him and even yells at him to "get the ''phekk'' off my desk!"), and does ''not'' like it when her crew is placed in unnecessary jeopardy. |
| 48 | * FirstPersonSmartass: Not all the time, but the stories featuring her as main character are told from her point of view and she frequently cracks jokes or makes sarcastic remarks in the narration. |
| 49 | * FlashbackNightmare[=/=]RecurringDreams: She calls it "The Nightmare," and it consists of the defense of the ''Kira''. |
| 50 | * GeneralRipper: {{Downplayed}}, but she has serious issues with the Klingon Empire due to her war experiences. She's a little ''too'' enthusiastic about arming the Gorn Resistance for a ProxyWar with the Empire in late 2409 before peace breaks out, and in "Fanfic/AChangedWorld" she [[spoiler:almost kills a shipload of 23rd century Klingons in cold blood because of it]]. |
| 51 | * GenreSavvy: She's noted to be a big fan of Earth sci-fi and she's got her moments. From the one-shot [[http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=16911271&postcount=18 "An Anomalous Nightmare"]] set after ''Bait and Switch'', Eleya out of nowhere asks about the connection between the strange behavior of her crew and the anomaly the ''Bajor'' is stuck in. |
| 52 | --> Warragul gives me a funny look and I scoff at him. "Oh, come on, we all know that's where this is headed. Every time we or anyone else hit an unexplained anomaly like this in the past it's made ''something'' weird happen." |
| 53 | * HappilyFailedSuicide: "Fanfic/LightOnTheHorizon", one of the two DistantFinale fics. [[spoiler:One of Eleya's sons entered Starfleet and was on a ship under her command, and was killed by the Borg when she fell for a trap set by One of One. Her daughter Taryn walked in on the aftermath of her mother trying to kill herself, except she drank herself unconscious first. Eleya reportedly gave up drinking entirely after that.]] |
| 54 | * HasAType: It's implied by various lines (both in her main continuity and in the Fanfic/{{Masterverse}}) that she prefers blond men who are taller than her. Jerrod Dalton is blond (though how big he is compared to her is unstated), Gaarra is a big beefy hunk and {{heavyworlder}}, while over in the Masterverse her friend and brief lover Jarkko Makinen is a blond man said to be played by Creator/JoonasSuotamo (a 6'11" Finnish actor and basketball player who was an understudy to Creator/PeterMayhew as Chewbacca in ''Film/TheForceAwakens''). |
| 55 | * HeightAngst: Downplayed. Eleya mentions in chapter three that she usually feels awkward on a dance floor since she tends to tower over her partner. In this case, though, her dance partner Gaarra is actually a few centimeters taller. |
| 56 | * HollywoodAtheist: {{Downplayed}}. She apparently had a bad experience (as in, no Orb experience at all) with the Orb of Prophecy and Change once upon a time that hurt her faith in the Prophets, but in ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' the Prophets speak to her and give her a MissionFromGod. Also she gets dragged against her will into a prophecy in ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid'': |
| 57 | -->'''Benjamin Sisko:''' You may not put much stock in the prophecies but [[RussianReversal the prophecies put stock in you]]. |
| 58 | * HotBlooded: She can have a hair-trigger temper at times and doesn't do anything by halves. The author's described her in forum posts as a mix of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]], [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Kira Nerys]], and [[Franchise/MassEffect Paragade FemShep]]. {{Deconstructed}} somewhat in that it frequently means that she gets into trouble with Starfleet's brass, such as in an [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten oft-referred to]] NoodleIncident where she apparently lost it at the Jenolan peace conference and cussed out Tuvok and several diplomats. |
| 59 | * ImprobableAge: A fact she's only too happy to lampshade. She puts commanding a GCS at the tender age of 29 down mostly to the fact that a lot of the more senior officers in the fleet have been killed in the various conflicts the Federation's become embroiled in. Q calls her an "overranked little spitfire". |
| 60 | * IndyPloy: When faced with a problem she has a tendency to make a loose outline of a plan and then basically wing it. People who aren't used to her (and the author, for that matter) frequently call the resulting trickery crazy or insane. Her attitude? [[CrazyEnoughToWork "It worked, didn't it?"]] |
| 61 | * InSeriesNickname: Biri and Gaarra sometimes shorten it to "El". In one story a Klingon calls her "''HromIy veqlargh''", "the Devil of Hromi", which she finds somewhat flattering. |
| 62 | * KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Eleya notes in one piece of narration that she has a taste for certain Klingon foods like gladst, although she considers gagh gross. She also enjoys late 20th and early 21st century Earth science fiction. |
| 63 | * TheLadette: She's a drinker (though not to excess, usually), she swears a lot, she pays attention to pro sports on Bajor, and wasn't averse to casual sex before she fell in love with Gaarra (they met when [[IntroductionByHookup she picked him up in a bar]]) and likes to take the lead. |
| 64 | * MildlyMilitary: She's informal with her command crew, even on duty, and is on a FirstNameBasis with them. The fact that she initially addresses Gaarra by rank and surname highlights how awkward she feels around him. With superiors such as Admiral Marconi she maintains a semblance of military decorum but isn't afraid to speak her mind. |
| 65 | * MilitaryBrat: Played with. Her father and her paternal grandfather both fought in the Bajoran Resistance during the Occupation, the latter being one of those killed in the [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kendra_Valley_Massacre Kendra Valley Massacre]]. But her father didn't join the Militia after the Cardassian withdrawal, and Eleya wasn't born for another eleven years. |
| 66 | * AMotherToHerMen: From "An Anomalous Nightmare", when Biri [[WhatTheHellHero objects]] to Eleya's order to nuke the sentient NegativeSpaceWedgie feeding on the crew's dreams: |
| 67 | --> '''Eleya:''' Full spread of quantum torpedoes seems like a plan to me. If it’s alive, I can kill it.\ |
| 68 | '''Biri:''' ''What?'' We don’t even know what that’ll do! And you’ll be killing the only known example of a—\ |
| 69 | '''Eleya:''' I’ll be killing a threat to my ship and my crew, and to any other crew that comes through here thinking it’s a safe area of space like it rightly should be. Have you got any better ideas? |
| 70 | * TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Occasionally introduces herself as "Eleya. Kanril Eleya." An {{inversion}} since Bajorans traditionally put their surname before their given name. |
| 71 | * NobleBigotWithABadge: She ''hates'' Orions, having nearly died fighting off a BoardingParty in the {{backstory}}, and harbors a deep grudge against Imperial Klingons (as a group) due to her war experiences (dealt with directly in "Fanfic/AChangedWorld"). She also alludes in one chapter to a dislike of Cardassians, something that's fairly common among Bajorans due to the atrocities they suffered during the Cardassian Occupation. Although her ship's bartender turns out to be Cardassian, albeit an old civilian who lived through the Dominion holocaust at the end of the war. |
| 72 | * NoodleIncident: It's strongly implied she used improvised bombs against the Klingons at some point during the 2405-2410 war. |
| 73 | * OfficialCouple: With Gaarra, as of the end of ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid''. They go the SecretRelationship route for a while but eventually marry during the Iconian War. |
| 74 | * OriginsEpisode: ''Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack'' lays out her {{backstory}} up to taking command of the USS ''Kagoshima''. |
| 75 | * OverrankedSoldier: At age 30 she's incredibly young for an O-6, which is explicitly due to her having been fast-tracked into the captain's chair on Admiral Quinn's orders. |
| 76 | * PardonMyKlingon: Sometimes you can't even go two consecutive pages without running into a "''phekk''" or a "''sher hahr kosst''". Every once in a while she'll even cuss in English. |
| 77 | * PassionateSportsGirl: Doesn't come up very often, but aside from being a martial artist, in ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid'' and "Fanfic/AllsFairInLoveAndWar" she's shown to be a fan of athletes from Kendra Province, namely a springball player named Tomis Lee and a baseball team called the Warriors. (Her father-in-law jokingly tells her and Gaarra to get an annulment because he doesn't want his grandchildren to grow up rooting for the Warriors.) |
| 78 | * PastExperienceNightmare: She has recurring nightmares of the boarding action on RBS ''Kira Nerys'' where she was stabbed. |
| 79 | * RankUp: She's shown as an admiral in a possible future where she and Gaarra have several sons and she's just delivered a daughter. |
| 80 | * RealWomenNeverWearDresses: Averted, though as she's rarely out of uniform in TheVerse it's hard to tell. She was wearing a skirt when she and Gaarra met at Quark's in civvies. |
| 81 | * ReligiousBruiser: Played with. She's fairly secular for a Bajoran, although later-set installments have been exploring her spirituality more. It's eventually explained that she was close to a HollywoodAtheist for a while in her late teens and twenties, but now seems to have joined a more moderate branch of the Bajoran religion. |
| 82 | * ReluctantWarrior: In her own words in ''Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack'', "I don't really like killing people, although I'm very good at it." [[spoiler:''Fanfic/RedScar'', however, confirms something implied in earlier stories: that she ''does'' enjoy killing, and hates and tries to repress that part of herself.]] |
| 83 | * ScarsAreForever: She was wounded on the left cheek and right kidney and retains the scars despite Starfleet medical tech being easily capable of removing them. In ''Fanfic/FromBajorToTheBlack'' it's explained that she keeps them as a reminder that she isn't immortal. The short piece "All of My Scars" also indicates that the scars are as much mental as physical, and Eleya ends it with the comment that she can't get rid of the past, but she ''can'' work for a different future. |
| 84 | * SecretRelationship: As of ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' she and Gaarra are keeping theirs a secret to avoid difficulty with the regs, since their relationship violates fraternization policy. But in "Fanfic/ToAbsentFriends" it turns out EverybodyKnewAlready. |
| 85 | * SemperFi: In Tropers/StarSword's writings the Bajoran Militia, Eleya included, uses USMC lingo and ranks and follows their "every Marine is first a rifleman" philosophy, said to be a TranslationConvention meant to draw a contrast with the more MildlyMilitary Starfleet (which uses mainly US Navy metaphors). |
| 86 | * ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Mildly: though not exhibitionist, she's frank about her enjoyment of sex and has been shown a few times to [[SleepsInTheNude prefer sleeping in the nude]]. When Franklin Drake complains about the latter in ''Fanfic/DidntExpectThat'', she retorts, "I happen to ''like'' having nothing but my man with me in bed, not that it's any of your business, ''ye'phekk maktal kosst amojan''." |
| 87 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Seeing as how she's the main character. She has dark green eyes and mid-back length red hair that she wears in a TomboyishPonytail. |
| 88 | * SmallTownBoredom: She grew up in a small town in Kendra Province called Priyat. She didn't want to be a town maintenance worker like her parents, so she enlisted with the Bajoran Militia at the earliest legal age. |
| 89 | * SpaceMarine: In addition to her primary role as a naval CO she's also stated to have taken the MACO training course (due to [[AMotherToHerMen not wanting to make her crew take any risks she wasn't willing to take herself]]), making her something like a Space Navy SEAL. |
| 90 | * StatuesqueStunner[=/=]TomboyishPonytail: She stands about 6'2", wears her hair in a ponytail, and is definitely a tomboy and ActionGirl. |
| 91 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jumja sticks, a Bajoran sweet resembling a large lollypop, made from the sap of the jumja tree. It's to the point where she brings a large takeout box of homemade jumja sticks along from [=DS9=]. |
| 92 | * UnreliableNarrator: Most of the stories are told from her perspective and the author has noted that she frequently isn't completely objective, especially when they hit her cultural hot-buttons. For example, she hates the Klingon Empire's cultural practices and was a little ''too'' enthusiastic about the opportunity to deliver Starfleet weapons to Gorn Separatists, contrasting it with the Federation's inaction during the Occupation of Bajor that cost the lives of millions. It's mentioned in a later story that this led to more trouble after peace broke out, and a slightly older and wiser Eleya admits she was partly responsible. |
| 93 | * UpThroughTheRanks: She spent four years as an enlisted gunnery tech in the Bajoran Militia, then attended Starfleet Academy later and made captain in only a handful of years. |
| 94 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She's terrified of the Borg, but she seems to be able to control that fear when she's in combat against them. |
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| 96 | !!Commander Tesjha Phohl |
| 97 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tess_phohl_1701.jpg]] |
| 98 | [[caption-width-right:250:''“Don’t get me wrong, I’m still your XO. The spirit of the regs is to protect the ship. If I ever think for a minute that your relationship, should you choose to pursue one, is endangering the ship or the crew, I’ll write you both up myself.”'']] |
| 99 | -> '''Gender and Species:''' Andorian ''[[BizarreAlienSexes shen]]''\ |
| 100 | '''Homeworld:''' Andoria\ |
| 101 | '''Position:''' First Officer and Tactical Officer\ |
| 102 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/ClaudiaBlack |
| 103 | |
| 104 | Commander Tesjha "Tess" Phohl, formerly second shift projectile weapons officer on the USS ''Khitomer'', was sent back over to the ''Kagoshima'' with Eleya to be her temporary tactical officer. After the ''Kagoshima'' was able to save much of the fleet Starfleet Command made Tess's transfer permanent along with Eleya's command. Eleya made her the XO in addition to her post as tactical officer, and brought Tess along with her when she transferred to her next command. |
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| 106 | Tess is quietly professional when acting as first officer, but is anything but when speaking as Eleya's friend. During space combat Tess operates the ''Bajor's'' weapons arrays and lets some BloodKnight tendencies through. |
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| 109 | * ActionGirl: Favors grenades and a huge minigun in ground combat. |
| 110 | * {{BFG}}: Eleya doesn't remember requisitioning Tess a phased polaron minigun that she describes as being almost as big as Tess is. |
| 111 | --> '''Eleya:''' You really think we're going to need that?\ |
| 112 | '''Birail:''' Says the woman carrying a grenade launcher. |
| 113 | * BloodKnight: Andorians are the {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s among the Federation's founding members. Despite her usually cool and collected demeanor Tess loves a good fight, and in particular takes an almost perverse glee in making an [[RammingAlwaysWorks attempted ram]] by a Jem'Hadar ship [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfire completely]]. |
| 114 | * BoyishShortHair |
| 115 | * BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage: She's the product of one, due to the Andorian population crisis that was ongoing at the time. She mentions a few times that her ''shreya'' and ''thavan'' didn't get along, and she joined Starfleet to piss the latter off. |
| 116 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: Eleya calls her "full of curves" in the narration, and another, older, Andorian in "Fanfic/TheUniverseDoesntCheat" gets mildly chastised for wondering aloud who "the ''shen'' with the great rack" is. |
| 117 | * {{Catchphrase}}: During space combat, some variation of "I have a lock. Firing." |
| 118 | * ADayInTheLimelight: "Fanfic/{{Frostbite}}" trades perspectives between her and Biri. |
| 119 | * HollywoodAtheist: Averted. By WordOfGod she's an agnostic: She doesn't think there's enough evidence either way, "and doesn't particularly give a shit." |
| 120 | * InSeriesNickname: Tess. |
| 121 | * MildlyMilitary: Played with. When talking to Eleya she has two modes. She's perfectly professional when speaking as first officer, but when speaking as Eleya's BFF they chitchat informally about everything from holonovels to Eleya's sex life. |
| 122 | * MilitaryBrat: Her ''thavan''[[labelnote:*]]her ''[[BizarreAlienSexes thaan]]'' parent[[/labelnote]] is apparently from a long line of Andorian Imperial Guard service members. [[InterserviceRivalry She decided to be contrary and join Starfleet instead.]] |
| 123 | * NumberTwo: Both her job title and her position in Eleya's life. |
| 124 | * OddNameNormalNickname: Depending on which Andorian language she's using at the time, she's known either as Tesjha Phohl or Siritesjha sh'Phohlhi. She usually goes by "Tess". |
| 125 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: According to "Fanfic/TheUniverseDoesntCheat" and "Fanfic/ShakedownShenanigans" her Imperial Andorian name is Siritesjha sh'Phohlhi. She usually goes by Tess. |
| 126 | * SarcasticDevotee: She's got her moments, particularly when Eleya walks onto the bridge after her one-night stand and Tess figures it out immediately. |
| 127 | * ShoutingShooter: Opens fire on some Orions with her minigun yelling something, but Eleya can't tell what because the gun is too loud. |
| 128 | |
| 129 | !!Commander Birail Riyannis |
| 130 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cdr__birail_riyannis_48.jpg]] |
| 131 | [[caption-width-right:250:''“And hey, maybe we’ll get to do some actual science in the DQ in spite of ourselves.”'']] |
| 132 | -> '''Gender and Species:''' Trill female (joined)\ |
| 133 | '''Homeworld:''' Trill\ |
| 134 | '''Position:''' Science Officer\ |
| 135 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1471513/ Ursula Abbott]] |
| 136 | |
| 137 | Easily the eldest member of the ''Bajor'' command crew, except maybe Dul'krah, Biri Riyannis is the fifth host of the Riyannis symbiont and a specialist in physics and xenobiology. She and Eleya met in 2407 when Biri, then a laboratory officer at Starfleet Academy, played the role of Eleya's science officer when the Bajoran took the "''KobayashiMaru''". Eleya brought her aboard the USS ''Kagoshima'' to act as her permanent science officer, and Biri stayed with her into the present day. |
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| 140 | * ActionGirl[=/=]BrainyBrunette[=/=]BadassBookworm: She's a Starfleet science officer, and she's also comparably competent in combat to the others. |
| 141 | * CombatMedic: Serves this role on the away mission in chapter seven, mixing it up with the rest of the team and providing first aid to an injured colonist and [[MauveShirt Senior Chief Athezra Darrod]], who gets nonfatally shot. |
| 142 | * ADayInTheLimelight: |
| 143 | ** "Fanfic/{{Frostbite}}" trades perspectives between her and Tess. |
| 144 | ** "Fanfic/TinkerDoctorGolferTrill" is told from her perspective, focusing on the backstories of Riyannis' hosts by way of the ''[[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Zhian%27tara zhian'tara]]''. |
| 145 | * InSeriesNickname: Eleya calls her "Biri". So does Tess on occasion, as does Bynam. |
| 146 | * InterServiceRivalry: There's occasionally some sniping between Biri, a science officer, and Eleya, a space warfare officer. WordOfGod (forum remarks around "Fanfic/TinkerDoctorGolferTrill") says this is indicative of a larger rivalry between Starfleet's scientific and military subdivisions, given how much of their job since Wolf 359 has been military and defense-related instead of exploration. |
| 147 | * MilitaryBrat: Her mother Pallas Izer was a senior chief petty officer who was killed when the USS ''Shanghai'' was destroyed at [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Chin%27toka Second Chin'toka]]. Her father discouraged her from joining Starfleet. Also, one previous host, Devon Riyannis, was a transporter chief who died in the 2360s. |
| 148 | * TheNthDoctor: Birail Izer is the fifth host of the Riyannis symbiont. |
| 149 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Riyannis symbiont is on its fifth host and is about 230 years old. However the host, née Birail Izer, is in her thirties. |
| 150 | |
| 151 | !!Lieutenant Commander Reshek Gaarra |
| 152 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/reshek_gaarra_8013.jpg]] |
| 153 | -> '''Gender and Species:''' Bajoran male\ |
| 154 | '''Homeworld:''' New Bajor\ |
| 155 | '''Position:''' Operations Officer\ |
| 156 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/AdamBaldwin |
| 157 | |
| 158 | Born in the Gamma Quadrant on New Bajor, Lieutenant Commander Reshek Gaarra received a Starfleet ROTC scholarship to the University of Alpha Centauri. Upon graduation he was assigned to the USS ''Spruance'' as first shift deflector officer, where he stayed for seven years. Captain Parsa credits him with saving the ship after the chief engineer was decapitated by shrapnel during a fight with a ''D'deridex''-class battlecruiser. He was assigned to the USS ''Bajor'' to replace Lieutenant Commander T'Var as Operations Officer but the files regarding her captain didn't come through. The night before his arrival aboard he and Eleya met in a bar and [[IntroductionByHookup hooked up for the night]], leading to a very awkward few days after they found out who the other was. They eventually became a couple, and Eleya often leans on him for psychological support. |
| 159 | |
| 160 | ---- |
| 161 | * CloningBodyParts: Ends up with replicated replacement lungs at the end of ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid''. |
| 162 | * FourthDateMarriage: He and Eleya have known each other less than two months when they become an OfficialCouple, and are married in less than a year, all without ever traditionally dating. {{Justified}} in part due to their offscreen wedding having been a spur-of-the-moment thing before the Battle of Iconia: it's strongly implied they didn't expect to survive the battle anyway. |
| 163 | * {{Heavyworlder}}: New Bajor has about a third more gravity than the homeworld. Gaarra is seen in the gym adjusting the weights and gravity field to mimic conditions on the colony so he won't lose the extra edge it gives him. |
| 164 | * HumbleHero: He got a medal for saving the ''Spruance'' from a core breach but is pretty nonchalant about the whole thing. |
| 165 | --> "I knew enough to operate a welding torch and reseal the coolant line and I suppose they considered that worth a medal." |
| 166 | * IntroductionByHookup: The first clue you get is that the ''Bajor'''s new ops officer is supposed to arrive the morning after the ''Bajor'' docks at [=DS9=]. He's identified by rank and surname. Then Eleya goes out for dinner at Quark's and meets Gaarra, they introduce themselves by given name, and sleep together. Next morning she walks into the ready room to meet the ops officer, and it's Gaarra. |
| 167 | * KlingonsLoveShakespeare: He reportedly has a fondness for Trill mystery novels. |
| 168 | * MilitaryBrat: His father is the Bajoran Militia's garrison commander on New Bajor, and was in the first wave to return after the Dominion pulled out, to check to make sure they didn't leave any surprises behind. |
| 169 | * MissingMom: She died when he was two. |
| 170 | * OfficialCouple: As of the end of ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid'', with Eleya. |
| 171 | * ParentalSubstitute: He was raised jointly by his father and his aunt Nefris, particularly since Dad had to go out on maneuvers a week out of every local month. |
| 172 | * SecondLove: For Eleya. He's the first serious relationship she had since her Academy boyfriend broke up with her, and ultimately marries her offscreen. |
| 173 | * SecretRelationship: In ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' he and Eleya are keeping their relationship quiet to avoid legal trouble, since them being an item violates fraternization policy. |
| 174 | * TakingTheBullet: In ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid'', is said to have tackled a civilian out of the way of an exploding EPS conduit, taking the full blast on his back. |
| 175 | |
| 176 | !!Lieutenant Dul'krah, Clan Korekh |
| 177 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/krah_clan_korekh_1119.jpg]] |
| 178 | [[caption-width-right:250:''“My people have a saying. ''Tuivakh ver eshalakh.'' The truth is mighty.”'']] |
| 179 | -> '''Gender and Species:''' Pe'khdar male\ |
| 180 | '''Homeworld:''' Korekh Clanhold, Dar Klatus System\ |
| 181 | '''Position:''' Chief of Security\ |
| 182 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/IdrisElba |
| 183 | |
| 184 | A member of a minor race from the Arucanis Arm, Korekh has been in space almost his entire life. A former officer of the Ver Eshalakh, the Pe'khdar military and police agency, he attended Starfleet Academy after the Pe'khdar Council of Clans was admitted to the Federation. After various postings as a security officer at a number of Starfleet installations he was assigned to the USS ''Exeter'' as third shift assistant security chief. In 2409 he was reassigned to the USS ''Bajor'' to serve as Eleya's chief of security. |
| 185 | |
| 186 | ---- |
| 187 | |
| 188 | * BioAugmentation: His entire species consists of genetic augments, a relic from the days following their self-inflicted ApocalypseHow. They're resistant to disease and radiation due to improved immune and cellular repair functions, and can "subsist on materials that most would not even consider edible". |
| 189 | * TheBigGuy: To quote Eleya, he's "built like a Cardassian main battle tank, bigger and stronger than most Klingons I've met." |
| 190 | * CustomUniform: He has special permission to continue wearing his black and green Ver Eshalakh uniform while working in Starfleet. |
| 191 | * CulturedWarrior: Competently plays the vodchakh, a Pe'khdar instrument similar to cross between a lute and a violin. He's even got a hobby of converting music written for other species' stringed instruments for play on the vodchakh. |
| 192 | * ADayInTheLimelight: ''Fanfic/TheHeadhunt'' is told from his perspective rather than Eleya's as usual. |
| 193 | * IAmXSonOfY: A variation. Pe'khdar don't have surnames in the usual sense and instead identify themselves by clan. In ''Fanfic/TheHeadhunt'' he identifies himself to the reader as "Dul'krah, son of Var'takh, Home-Clan Korekh, Blood-Clan Rustra, Ship-Clan Bajor". |
| 194 | * ReligiousBruiser: Doesn't come up much outside of his DayInTheLimelight, but he's a practitioner of his species' polytheistic religion. This includes burning incense as an offering to their sun goddess before beginning an investigation. |
| 195 | * SpacePeople: The Pe'khdar all live in asteroid habitats because their homeworld is a post-nuclear wasteland. |
| 196 | * SpacePolice: The Ver Eshalakh are both military and police force for the Pe'khdar Nation. |
| 197 | |
| 198 | !!Lieutenant Junior Grade Dr. Warragul William Wirrpanda |
| 199 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/warragul_wirrpanda_5510.png]] |
| 200 | ->'''Gender and Species:''' Human male\ |
| 201 | '''Homeworld:''' Sagara IV\ |
| 202 | '''Position:''' Chief Medical Officer\ |
| 203 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0992370/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Wayne Blair]] |
| 204 | |
| 205 | The ''Bajor''[='s=] chief medical officer and the only human on the command crew, Warragul is also the youngest member of Eleya's staff. |
| 206 | |
| 207 | ---- |
| 208 | * AlliterativeName |
| 209 | * ImprobableAge: {{Downplayed}}. Based on his Academy graduation date of 2404, we can infer he's about 27 years old, and he's said to be on his first assignment as chief medical officer (his previous post was chief of surgery on the USS ''Alphecca'', and before that he was doing his residency in a starbase hospital). CMO for a thousand-man crew is a fairly big job for somebody that young. |
| 210 | * MeaningfulName: "Warragul" is an alternate name for the dingo in one Australian Aboriginal language, albeit not from the tribe he's known to be descended from. |
| 211 | * TheMedic: In ''Fanfic/RealityIsFluid'' one of his corpsmen calls him the finest trauma surgeon she's ever served with. |
| 212 | * TokenHuman: He's not the only human on the ''Bajor'', but he is the only one at command level. The other command crew members consist of two Bajorans, two Andorians, a joined Trill, and a Pe'khdar. |
| 213 | * TwoferTokenMinority: More like a three-fer. He's ethnically an Australian Aborigine (his mother is stated to be Pintupi), making him black ''and'' a Pacific Islander, and he's also the TokenHuman. |
| 214 | |
| 215 | !!Lieutenant Junior Grade K'lak, son of Rokar |
| 216 | [[quoteright:125:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lak_3033.png]] |
| 217 | [[caption-width-right:125:''“I have sworn my honor to the service of the Federation. I would suggest you do not make an issue of it, ''qarDaSngan''.”'']] |
| 218 | -> '''Gender and Species:''' Klingon male\ |
| 219 | '''Homeworld:''' Ajilon Prime\ |
| 220 | '''Position:''' Security Department (sniper)\ |
| 221 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/TonyTodd |
| 222 | |
| 223 | A MACO-qualified sniper assigned to the ''Bajor's'' Starfleet Security detachment. He accompanies Eleya on an away mission in chapter seven. |
| 224 | |
| 225 | [[http://memory-gamma.wikia.com/wiki/K%27lak Has a full bio here.]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | ---- |
| 228 | * AscendedExtra: The name and face belong to a randomly generated Starfleet security officer doff. |
| 229 | * BattleCouple[=/=]InterspeciesRomance: With his spotter, Ens. [=McMillan=]. |
| 230 | * BerserkButton: Tess was quite surprised he didn't kill a lieutenant from the IKS ''[=HoS=]'' he encountered at a strip club on Deep Space 9 who called him a ''[[GratuitousForeignLanguage bolwI']]''. Being called a traitor would piss anyone off. Cooler heads prevailed, though, and they settled it with a DrinkingContest that ended in a draw. |
| 231 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: Offscreen, apparently passed out after four shots of Romulan ale, and this from a species that drinks bloodwine, a liquor with twice the potency of whiskey, by the tankard. In fairness to K'lak, pretty much everyone who isn't a Romulan has trouble with Romulan ale (his opponent did no better). |
| 232 | * ColdSniper: Not exactly unfriendly, but quite dour in demeanor. |
| 233 | * MauveShirt: One of several recurring background characters with a small amount of characterization. |
| 234 | |
| 235 | !!Lieutenant Junior Grade Kaitlyn Eloise [=McMillan=] |
| 236 | [[quoteright:125:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kate_mcmillan_380.png]] |
| 237 | -> '''Gender and Species:''' Human female\ |
| 238 | '''Homeworld:''' Earth\ |
| 239 | '''Position:''' Security Department (sniper's spotter) |
| 240 | |
| 241 | K'lak's TargetSpotter and off-and-on girlfriend. |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[http://memory-gamma.wikia.com/wiki/Kaitlyn_McMillan Has a full bio here.]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | ---- |
| 246 | * ArtificialLimbs: She lost her right leg above the knee during the Klingon attack on Utopia Planitia (it happens in ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet''). In "Fanfic/LastRights" she adds a new kidney after being shot on Kobali Prime. |
| 247 | * AscendedExtra: The name and face belong to a randomly generated Starfleet security officer doff. Ascended even further in ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet'', where she's a viewpoint character. |
| 248 | * BattleCouple[=/=]InterspeciesRomance: With K'lak. The fact that he's her direct superior makes it technically against regulations, but they talk Eleya into ignoring it on basis that in this case, them being in a relationship actually ''improves'' ship functioning. |
| 249 | * BigApplesauce: She's from Staten Island. |
| 250 | * FieryRedhead: In "Fanfic/MistletoeOnMirhassa" she gets into a roaring argument with Dul'krah regarding bringing a Christmas tree up to the ship. He says it's a personal items violation, she counters that there's an exception for "objects of religious or cultural importance". Eleya gives her a verbal warning for mouthing off to a superior officer [[HypocrisyNod and wonders to herself if she's being a bad influence on her junior personnel]]. |
| 251 | * MauveShirt: One of several recurring background characters with a small amount of characterization. |
| 252 | * RankUp: She's an ensign in ''Fanfic/RedFireRedPlanet'' and ''Fanfic/{{Bait and Switch|STO}}'', but by "An Anomalous Nightmare" she's gotten the normal time-in-grade promotion to JG. |
| 253 | * SantaClausmas: {{Discussed}} in "Fanfic/MistletoeOnMirhassa". Kate's an atheist, her father is Reform Baptist and her mother was raised [[UsefulNotes/NeoPaganism Neo-Norse]]. For her, Christmas was a way to get her divorced parents to both be in the same room as her for a little while each year. |
| 254 | * TargetSpotter: Acts as a spotter to K'lak. |
| 255 | |
| 256 | !!Senior Chief Petty Officer Athezra Darrod |
| 257 | ->'''Gender and Species:''' Bajoran male\ |
| 258 | '''Position:''' Ranking Security noncom\ |
| 259 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/MattCzuchry |
| 260 | |
| 261 | A senior non-commissioned officer in the ''Bajor'''s Security department, he reports to Dul'krah and is also the commander of the ship's assault unit. |
| 262 | |
| 263 | ---- |
| 264 | * BackFromTheDead[=/=]PutOnABus: [[spoiler:In "Fanfic/LastRights" he dies after taking a piece of shrapnel in the chest. He's revived as a Kobali named Q'Tal, but doesn't remember anything of his previous life.]] |
| 265 | * MauveShirt: He basically floats around in the background for several stories [[spoiler:before being killed off]]. |
| 266 | * PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed in action in "Fanfic/LastRights", then the Kobali ask to turn his corpse into a Kobali.]] |
| 267 | * SergeantRock: A competent, dependable Starfleet Security senior chief petty officer. |
| 268 | * SpaceMarine: Starfleet Security does double-duty as both military police and ground forces. He's mentioned to have been stationed at a Starfleet installation on Korvat when war broke out with the Klingons, and makes surface landings alongside Eleya several times. [[spoiler:He's guarding her on Kobali Prime when he's killed.]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | !!Lieutenant Alicia Westlake Gantumur |
| 271 | ->'''Gender and Species:''' Human female\ |
| 272 | '''Position:''' Assault team leader and crew combat trainer\ |
| 273 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/KeiraKnightley |
| 274 | |
| 275 | A Kurdish-Welsh MACO lieutenant brought on to replace SCPO. Athezra as head of the assault unit during the Iconian War. |
| 276 | |
| 277 | ---- |
| 278 | * ActionGirl: She's a special warfare officer, i.e. a MACO.her surname is Mongolian. |
| 279 | * PassionateSportsGirl: In one story she's shown {{squee}}ing over a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_City_F.C. Cardiff City F.C.]] goalie's jersey her mother sent her for Christmas. |
| 280 | * VeteranInstructor: She's said to have had extensive combat experience as a MACO, and her main job on the ship between ground missions is teaching combat drills. |
| 281 | |
| 282 | !!Lieutenant Rachel Connor |
| 283 | ->'''Gender and Species:''' Human Augment female\ |
| 284 | '''Position:''' CO, MACO Unit 133 |
| 285 | |
| 286 | A SuperSoldier created by Section 31, Rachel Connor commands a MACO unit that was attached to ''Bajor'' beginning in the Iconian War. Hunted endlessly by her creators, her nature is known only to a few on the ship's crew. |
| 287 | ---- |
| 288 | * ButchLesbian: Much like Eleya, she's a hard-drinking career soldier prone to profanity, but unlike Eleya is not at all heterosexually inclined. She soon starts a relationship with a [[LipstickLesbian more feminine]] member of ''Bajor'''s Science department, Eleana Valens. |
| 289 | * CannotTellALie: She's a lousy liar, as is brought up in "Fanfic/BrotherOnBrotherDaughterOnMother". Gantumur doesn't believe her excuses for surviving an attempted Borg assimilation for a minute, [[spoiler:and Reshek Taryn, her coworker from a future timeline, comments that she cleans Rachel out every time they play poker]]. |
| 290 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: In a story set in 2415, she challenges Earth's anti-Augment laws [[spoiler:and gets most of them overturned on appeal]]. But in the meantime, she has to deal with bigotry all over the place and two attempted kidnappings by Section 31 ([[spoiler:including an attack on Tess's ship as it transports her to protective custody at Facility 4028]]). |
| 291 | * ExtremeOmnivore: She can eat virtually any organic material for fuel, and frequently has to because her BioAugmentation consumes a lot of energy. |
| 292 | * GoneHorriblyRight: Section 31 created her but didn't fully think through how to ''control'' her: their first attempt with a brain implant was broken down by her immune system. |
| 293 | * LivingLieDetector: Her SuperSenses let her detect a lot of subtle cues to whether someone is lying to her. |
| 294 | * TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: She was a decorated MACO officer even before being assimilated by the Borg and then converted into a SuperSoldier, but she idolizes Eleya, in large part because the Captain treats her like a person instead of a science project (while also demanding that Connor treat ''herself'' like a person and not a monster). |
| 295 | * SuperSoldier: She has SuperStrength and SuperSenses and grows chitinous armor all over her body if hurt badly. On top of that her enhanced immune system rapidly destroys foreign material, up to and including Borg nanoprobes. |
| 296 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: She was raised in Earth's strongly anti-Augment culture, so to then wake up having been involuntarily converted into a genetically altered SuperSoldier was a bit of a shock. She struggles constantly with self-hate. |
| 297 | [[/folder]] |
| 298 | |
| 299 | [[folder:Other Starfleet Personnel]] |
| 300 | !!Admiral Amnell Kree |
| 301 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/admiral_amnell_kree_8651.jpg]] |
| 302 | -> '''Gender and Species:''' Trill female (joined)\ |
| 303 | '''Homeworld:''' Trill\ |
| 304 | '''Position:''' Flag Officer-in-Command, ''Marduk'' Carrier Battle Group CBG-62\ |
| 305 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/CarrieAnneMoss |
| 306 | |
| 307 | The commander of the Marduk Carrier Battle Group. A joined Trill and a heavily decorated veteran of the Dominion War. |
| 308 | |
| 309 | [[http://memory-gamma.wikia.com/wiki/Amnell_Kree Has a bio here.]] |
| 310 | |
| 311 | ---- |
| 312 | * AcePilot: She flew a ''Peregrine''-class fighter during the Dominion War and scored nineteen confirmed kills, including bagging a ''Galor''-class during Operation Return ([=DS9=]: "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E06SacrificeOfAngels Sacrifice of Angels]]"). |
| 313 | * DeathGlare: Glares at her flag captain Bronok Zell for arriving late to a MissionBriefing. When she reappears in ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' she shuts down Brokosh by this method when he talks out of turn during another MissionBriefing. Eleya is sympathetic and refers to it as the [[{{Tradesnark}} Kree Glare™]]. |
| 314 | * GrumpyOldMan: Gender-flipped. She's a lot less MildlyMilitary than most of the cast and doesn't put up with much in the way of antics, even glaring at her flag captain for showing up late to the briefing. |
| 315 | * TheNthDoctor: It's AllThereInTheManual but Amnell is her symbiont's third host. |
| 316 | * OlderThanTheyLook: According to Eleya, "She’s well-preserved but something about her leads me to peg her age as sixty-something." Her [[http://memory-gamma.wikia.com/wiki/Amnell_Kree Memory Gamma bio]] puts her age at 69. And that's just the host we're talking about. |
| 317 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Kree symbiont. [[AllThereInTheManual Her bio]] says Amnell Rovel is the third host. |
| 318 | * RuggedScar: The area around her left eye is a mass of scar tissue. |
| 319 | * TomboyishPonytail: Forceful personality and back-length iron-gray hair in a ponytail draped over her shoulder. |
| 320 | [[/folder]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[folder:Crew of the ch'M'R ''Aen'rhien'']] |
| 323 | The main cast of the ''Fanfic/LegacyOfChRihan'' sub-series, crew of a Romulan Republic ''D'deridex''-class warbird. |
| 324 | |
| 325 | !!''Khre'Riov'' Morgaiah ir'Sheratan "Morgan" t'Thavrau |
| 326 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fafef80dcb0529374f30e0ba4ca2d1fe.png]] |
| 327 | [[caption-width-right:300:''“You dishonor ''yourself''. You prey on the weak and the innocent. You kill for glory like the worst kind of Khe’lloann’na. And now you dare to insult ''my'' honor?”'']] |
| 328 | ->'''Gender and Species:''' Romulan female\ |
| 329 | '''Homeworld:''' Sheratan VII\ |
| 330 | '''Position:''' Commanding Officer\ |
| 331 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000539/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Dina Meyer]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | The commanding officer of the ''Bloodwing'', Morgan was born into a noble family in 2356 and served in the ''[[GratuitousForeignLanguage Galae s'Shiar Rihan]]'' (the Romulan Grand Fleet) before Hobus. While she missed the Dominion War on account of being too young at the time, she served during Shinzon's [[TheCoup coup d'etat]] and the following civil war years and by 2387 was the executive officer (''ih'hwi'saenhe'') of the ''[[VideoGame/StarTrekStarfleetCommand Raptor]]''[[VideoGame/StarTrekStarfleetCommand -class warbird]] ch'R ''Albintian''. |
| 334 | |
| 335 | Morgan's entire family died in the Hobus supernova, and Morgan was severely wounded when the ''Albintian'' was attacked by [[Film/StarTrek2009 Nero]] while escorting the survivors of the Senate to safety. She was later forced to abandon the ''Galae'' in yet-to-be-explained NoodleIncident where the [[StateSec Tal'Shiar]] "destroyed my career", and eventually settled on Virinat to become a farmer, gaining a reputation as the best vintner on the planet. |
| 336 | |
| 337 | After the Tal'Shiar/Elachi attack on Virinat, she swore herself to the Romulan Republic and eventually took command of a ''D'deridex''-class warbird that defected from the Tal'Shiar, the ch'M'R ''Aen'rhien'' (the RRW ''Bloodwing'' in Federation Standard). |
| 338 | |
| 339 | ---- |
| 340 | * AntiHero: Due to DeliberateValuesDissonance. She definitely one of the good guys, but she believes very strongly in the Literature/{{Rihannsu}} creed of ''mnhei'sahe'', which sometimes leads her to unapologetically do things like [[spoiler:killing an unarmed Kazon prisoner in anger]]. |
| 341 | * BlueBlood: The Romulan Star Empire having been a Roman-style HereditaryRepublic rather than a traditional democracy, as the grand-niece of a senator Morgan is minor nobility (part of a cadet branch). She'd be the head of the House of Thavrau now, except that all of its holdings were destroyed in the supernova. |
| 342 | * BroadStrokes: Some sacrifices have to be made to do {{crossover}}s with Worffan101's character D'trel, since all Romulan {{Player Character}}s have the same basic {{backstory}}. Among other things Tovan tr'Khev's presence in some of D'trel's past adventures is ignored in favor of him being assigned to Morgan's ship. |
| 343 | * BrokenPedestal: She took the honorific "ei'Salthos" while she was a MilitaryAcademy cadet in honor of the heroism of her ancestor Salthos i'Mirek t'Thavrau during the Earth-Romulan War. She later stopped using it after learning of his involvement in what sounds like a reprisal campaign against a rebellion from what little we're told about it. |
| 344 | * CallToAgriculture: She grew grain and manufactured ale and wine on Virinat, with a reputation for being the best vintner on the planet, and her fondest wish is to be able to retire and go back there. She gets part of her wish after the Iconian War when she talks D'tan into funding the planet's resettlement. |
| 345 | -->“''Peace'', Sarsachen. If this works out, I am one step closer to my quiet vineyard on Virinat.” |
| 346 | * TheCaptain[=/=]CommandingCoolness[=/=]FourStarBadass: ''Khre'riov'' translates as "subadmiral" or "commander-general" and is equivalent to a Starfleet commodore, something of a senior-grade captain ordinarily assigned to a single warbird but holding the authority to command a task force. Morgan is no slouch as either a starship commander or a ground combatant. |
| 347 | * DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: Her biological father Merken tr'Vreenak was never in the picture due to her parents' adulterous relationship having the potential to cause an inter-clan blood feud. |
| 348 | * FantasticRacism: As seen in the quote, she has a very low opinion of the Klingons, considering them little more than idiotic thugs prone to suicide charges and killing for personal glory. Sort of understandable: the two species were regional rivals for centuries. |
| 349 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: Her speech is regularly peppered with words and phrases in Rihan, said to be intended to place emphasis on the fact that [[DeliberateValuesDissonance she's not human and doesn't have a human viewpoint]]. This disappears when she speaks Federation Standard. |
| 350 | * HeroesPreferSwords: She's trained in the use of the honor blade, a traditional Romulan sword that resembles a saber. |
| 351 | * HeroicBastard: She was born out of wedlock and her mother never told her who her father was. Her mother and her great-aunt apparently weren't on the best of terms after that. Morgan suspects her father was a senator, confirmed to be [[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E19InThePaleMoonlight Merken Vreenak]] in "Fanfic/HeisheRinanovai". |
| 352 | * InSeriesNickname: "Morgan" was apparently given to her by her childhood friend Gina Parker, the daughter of a Federation embassy officer. |
| 353 | * MasterSwordsman: Her skills with the honor blade are on full display in "Sienov Mnhei'sahein", where she defeats a Watraii swordsman of similar skill who has a considerable height and weight advantage. |
| 354 | * MilitaryMoonshiner: She was an ale-brewer and wine-maker on Virinat and maintains a sideline as a brewer in the present day. |
| 355 | * ProudWarriorRaceGirl: In "Sienov Mnhei'sahein" she's about to {{duel|ToTheDeath}} a Watraii nobleman to salvage a diplomatic mission, and reflects on this. |
| 356 | -->Her sword, the Khul’ar Pattern 2373, was not a true ''sienov omienai'', only a Fleet officer’s saber, a machine-produced reproduction of the famed Rihan swords of which so many had died with the homeworld.\ |
| 357 | \ |
| 358 | But like her opponent, she had killed with the blade. In a boarding action, in the closest of quarters aboard a warbird or a pirate’s converted freighter, you used whatever weapon came to hand, even the ostensibly ceremonial ones. Factory-forged or not, the saber [i]was[/i] her honor blade, and she knew every scratch and nick on it as they caught the light amid the practice swings she took to limber up as she approached Garaf. A scratch from sparring with tr’Sauringar. A chip in the fuller where it had blocked a bat’leth.\ |
| 359 | \ |
| 360 | That was the difference between herself and this man, or with any ''Khe’lloann’na''[[note]]Klingon[[/note]] you cared to name. Battle was not glamorous, it was certainly not honorable, and by the Elements it was not to be sought. But there was a certain savage beauty in it. |
| 361 | * RedOniBlueOni: When paired with Worffan101's character D'trel, she's the blue to D'trel's red. She's more methodical and even-tempered than D'trel (no Tal'Shiar-related BerserkButton, for one) and commands a more defensively oriented ship. |
| 362 | * RoyalBastard: She is revealed in ''Fanfic/PeaceForgedInFire'' to be the illegitimate daughter of a Romulan senator's niece (making her nobility of a HereditaryRepublic). It's implied in "Fanfic/FlaihhsamSSpahkh" and confirmed in "Fanfic/HeisheRinanovai" that her biological father was Senator Merken Vreenak, for whom her mother had been working as chief of staff at the time. He was married at the time, and her mother quit and hid Morgan's parentage to protect her from Vreenak's wife and prevent [[FeudingFamilies a three-way blood feud]]. |
| 363 | * SourSupporter: To D'tan. She disagrees with him politically (she's a BlueBlood and is against Romulan-Vulcan reunification) and considers him a too-naive WideEyedIdealist, but she follows him anyway because he's sincerely trying to do right by the Romulan people. |
| 364 | * SwordAndGun: In "Fanfic/TheRoadNotTaken" she uses a [[KickingAssInAllHerFinery not-so-ceremonial]] sword and an appropriated Jem'Hadar pistol when the Jems attack Deep Space 9. |
| 365 | * YoungerThanTheyLook: Initially said to be 49, later {{retcon}}ned to mid-fifties, which either way is only about a quarter of the way through a typical Romulan lifespan. However, due to two decades or so of farm work she's aged prematurely and is already going silver at the temples. |
| 366 | |
| 367 | !!Lieutenant Commander Jaleh Khoroushi (ژاله خروشی) |
| 368 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b37143266485d533a4e7510936025186.png]] |
| 369 | [[caption-width-right:250:''“Tr’Khev, I may be ''elsaenen ch’temivhen'' on this ship but I’m still a Starfleet officer.”'']] |
| 370 | ->'''Gender and Species:''' Human female\ |
| 371 | '''Homeworld:''' Shahediyeh, Yazd Province, Iran, Earth\ |
| 372 | '''Position:''' Operations Officer, Starfleet Liaison Officer\ |
| 373 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2063731/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Naz Deravian]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | A career Starfleet officer from Iran, specializing in logistics, Jaleh Khoroushi took courses in Romulan Studies at Starfleet Academy, and after the alliance with the Romulan Republic was assigned to serve aboard a Romulan ship as an exchange officer. Like Eleya she's also known to be a [[UpThroughTheRanks mustang]]. |
| 376 | |
| 377 | Jaleh Khoroushi is a practicing [[UsefulNotes/{{Islam}} Twelver Shiite]] and her beliefs and practices are frequently touched on in the various stories. |
| 378 | |
| 379 | ---- |
| 380 | * BigSisterInstinct: Along with her older brother Ehsan, she spent her childhood helping her parents raise their three younger siblings, and she falls back into that habit when she learns that [[spoiler:her youngest brother Dariush lost his leg when the Iconians bombed Starfleet Academy]]. |
| 381 | * BrainyBrunette: She's fluent in Romulan. |
| 382 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Stories set aboard the ''Aen'rhien'' generally follow either her perspective or Morgan's. Morgan is the captain, but Jaleh has a bit more time as the POV character. |
| 383 | * FantasticReligiousWeirdness: Her faith is very important to her but she has to make a number of adjustments to serve on a Romulan ship. She prays facing towards the Sol system, based on ship time, and while she's undertaking her Ramadan fast in "Fanfic/SolaereSsiunHnaifvdaenn" Tovan tr'Khev gets worried about her not eating. When she has to be vaccinated against bloodfire, she insists to Emira t'Vraehn that she be given an injected vaccine rather than the usual pill, since the latter would break her fast according to real-life fatwas. She ''does'' drink alcohol, which she said is because she gave up trying to keep ''halal'' on deployment earlier in her career (although Tropers/StarSword admitted this was [[ArtisticLicenseReligion him covering a goof]]). She also doesn't wear hijab with her Starfleet uniform, though she does when she's in civvies. |
| 384 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: Even in stories that don't focus on her faith, she'll still frequently say bits of Farsi or Arabic ([[ForeignCussWord some expletives]], some not). |
| 385 | * HumansAreWhite: Almost {{inverted}}. Jaleh is almost invariably the only human in the story, and she's an ethnic Persian. |
| 386 | * MassiveNumberedSiblings: She has one older brother and two younger brothers and one sister. |
| 387 | * MoralityPet: She and Tovan discuss the possibility of her trying to discourage Morgan from her more questionable actions, such as [[spoiler:the murder of that Kazon prisoner]]. |
| 388 | * OlderThanTheyLook: To be first a chief petty officer and now a lieutenant commander implies she's in her forties. ''Fanfic/MhirrafvTerrhai'' nails down her age to 37. |
| 389 | * PromotionToParent: Both parents were around, but she was the second of five kids and she and her elder brother Ehsan got drafted into being backup parents. |
| 390 | * {{Reconstruction}}: Of Middle Eastern and devout Muslim characters in general, after the author got tired of how Muslims are nearly always Islamic terrorists in contemporary fiction. Although she doesn't wear hijab on duty and does consume alcohol, she is absolutely a devout Shiite and also absolutely a good Starfleet officer, and doesn't see any conflict between the two. |
| 391 | * RedOniBlueOni: Compared to Morgan, she's the blue oni, although she's got her moments. |
| 392 | * ShipTease: There's some of this between her and Tovan tr'Khev. They're good friends, and in "Fanfic/SolaereSsiunHnaifvdaenn" there's some back-and-forth about whether them having dinner together counts as a date. In ''Fanfic/MhirrafvTerrhai'' Jaleh insists to her brother that they are not sleeping together (which would violate Islamic religious law). |
| 393 | * ThreateningMediator: Her solution to Praetor Velal trying to walk out of the peace conference with the Republic is to blow up a light fixture with her holdout phaser and order him to sit back down at gunpoint so she can look at the evidence. |
| 394 | * TokenHuman: As a Starfleet exchange officer she's the only human on the ''Aen'rhien'', and usually the only human character, period. |
| 395 | * UpThroughTheRanks: There's a throwaway mention in ''Fanfic/PeaceForgedInFire'' that she was a chief petty officer earlier in her career, specifically a quartermaster. That's a grade that takes years of service to attain. |
| 396 | |
| 397 | !!''Riov'' Sarsachen i'Amriel tr'Sauringar |
| 398 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/61e4ba687c22fac57af2fccc0076cfe3.png]] |
| 399 | [[caption-width-right:250:''“All we can do is hope that [Sahuel’s] defection with the ''Aen’rhien'' and our subsequent actions will be enough to cleanse the stain on its name.”'']] |
| 400 | ->'''Gender and Species:''' Romulan male\ |
| 401 | '''Homeworld:''' Kevratas\ |
| 402 | '''Position:''' Executive Officer\ |
| 403 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/ChristopherEccleston |
| 404 | |
| 405 | Morgan t'Thavrau's NumberTwo, Sarsachen is a fifteen-year veteran of the Federation Starfleet. Unlike Jaleh, who is an exchange officer, Sarsachen holds a dual commission with the ''Galae s'Kreh'dhhokh Mol'Rihan''. |
| 406 | |
| 407 | ---- |
| 408 | * CityMouse: He doesn't understand Morgan's CallToAgriculture in ''Fanfic/MhirrafvTerrhai'', noting that farming village life isn't his thing: he's a city boy. |
| 409 | * CommandingCoolness: ''Riov'' ("commander") is an O-6 grade, the same as a Starfleet captain. |
| 410 | * DuelingScar: He was reportedly challenged to a duel by another Republic officer who took exception to Sarsachen's time in Starfleet. He came away needing stitches but put the other guy in the hospital. |
| 411 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Briefly appeared in the Eleya short "Fanfic/AnAnomalousNightmare" (he hitched a ride to New Romulus on the ''Bajor'') before being introduced in more detail in "Fanfic/AenrhienVailiuri". |
| 412 | * NumberTwo: To Morgan. |
| 413 | * StoutStrength: He's described as being tall, stocky, and powerfully built. |
| 414 | * ThreatBackfire: In "Fanfic/SolaereSsiunHnaifvdaenn" he exchanges insults with a Nausicaan clan chief without flinching, before they start shooting at each other. |
| 415 | -->'''Vaklarash:''' You're in no position to make demands, Romulan ''[[PardonMyKlingon jil'kresh]]''. Maybe you didn't notice but there's eight of us and two[[note]]the ''Aen'rhien'' and a Starfleet hospital ship[[/note]] of you.\ |
| 416 | '''Sarsachen:''' So why don't you get some more friends and make it an even fight. |
| 417 | |
| 418 | !!''Erei'Riov'' Tovan ir'Hfihar tr'Khev |
| 419 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/53c67accfde8cd6652cf4c1808f6d529.png]] |
| 420 | [[caption-width-right:250:''“I’m chief of security on this warbird, and I’m your friend. I get worried when my friends don’t eat.”'']] |
| 421 | ->'''Gender and Species:''' Romulan male\ |
| 422 | '''Homeworld:''' Romulus\ |
| 423 | '''Position:''' Chief of Security\ |
| 424 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' Creator/JonHuertas |
| 425 | |
| 426 | Security and intelligence chief to the ''Aen'rhien'', Tovan tr'Khev is the ''Fanfic/LegacyOfChRihan'' incarnation of the {{NPC}} Tovan Khev in the canon ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' game. A police constable on Virinat, he fled the planet with Morgan and swore himself to the Republic. |
| 427 | |
| 428 | ---- |
| 429 | * BlueBlood: His father was a Romulan nobleman who served as an aide de camp to then-General Velal during the Dominion War. |
| 430 | * BroadStrokes: He's [[Characters/StarTrekOnlineRomulansAndRemans Tovan Khev, the Romulan PC's friend from Virinat]] and the details are more or less the same as canon, but the story focuses less on him as Morgan's old friend and more on him as her officer. Also, crossovers with D'trel ignore that Tovan exists in D'trel's past as well. |
| 431 | * CommandingCoolness: ''Erei'riov'' ("subcommander") is an O-5 grade, same as a Starfleet commander. He has balls to spare, as demonstrated in "Fanfic/SolaereSsiunHnaifvdaenn" when he gives his gun to a local tough who's stirring things up and dares the guy to use it on him. ([[ItWorksBetterWithBullets He neglected to mention he'd palmed the power cell.]]) |
| 432 | * FriendInTheBlackMarket: As befitting a SpaceCop, he's got his sources on the other side of the law. In ''Fanfic/PeaceForgedInFire'' he reaches out to his contacts as intelligence sources, and one of them, a Suliban gunrunner named Rhaego, clues him in that the Tal'Shiar are trying to sabotage the negotiations between the Empire and the Republic. |
| 433 | * MildlyMilitary: He's one of the only members of the ''Aen'rhien'' crew to call Morgaiah "Morgan", and complains to Jaleh in "Fanfic/AenrhienVailiuri" that she doesn't call him Tovan anymore. Justified considering he was a civilian less than two years ago. |
| 434 | * ShipTease: Some of this with Jaleh. They're good friends, and in "Fanfic/SolaereSsiunHnaifvdaenn" there's some back-and-forth about whether them having dinner together counts as a date. |
| 435 | * SpacePolice: He's the chief of security, and previously was TheSheriff on Hfihar and in i'Haanikh on Virinat. |
| 436 | |
| 437 | !!''Arrain'' Sahuel i'Tlhira t'Khnialmnae |
| 438 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/913cc0a646c50a8b246d3ed8f64ce6fb.png]] |
| 439 | [[caption-width-right:250:''“That was an accident! And I wasn’t even on duty!”'']] |
| 440 | ->'''Gender and Species:''' Romulan female\ |
| 441 | '''Homeworld:''' Romulus\ |
| 442 | '''Position:''' Tactical Officer\ |
| 443 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2079733/?ref_=nv_sr_1 Daniela Ruah]] |
| 444 | |
| 445 | A Tal'Shiar defector, Sahuel t'Khnialmnae served aboard the ''Aen'rhien'' as a gunnery officer under its former management. Mans the guns on the ''Aen'rhien''. |
| 446 | |
| 447 | ---- |
| 448 | * TheAtoner: The ''Aen'rhien'' destroyed a refugee convoy in a botched counterintel operation while she was serving aboard in the Tal'Shiar, and she's very defensive and guilty about it (see the quotation in her image caption). |
| 449 | * BlueBlood: As the daughter of a senator, rather than the grand-niece, Sahuel is even more of a BlueBlood than Morgan is. |
| 450 | * ADayInTheLimelight: ''Fanfic/EmaelMosekhesailho'' is an OriginsEpisode for her. |
| 451 | * DeathByOriginStory[=/=]MissingMom: Her mother was killed in [[Film/StarTrekNemesis Shinzon's coup]], though Sahuel was already an adult by that point. |
| 452 | * DefectorFromDecadence: Defected to the Republic from the Tal'Shiar, apparently prompted by a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment after the above clusterfrak. She brought the ship with her. |
| 453 | * SignificantGreenEyedRedhead: Auburn hair, green eyes, supporting character. |
| 454 | * YouKilledMyMother: Sahuel's motivation for joining the Tal'Shiar was to get a chance to avenge her mother by killing Senator Tal'Aura. |
| 455 | |
| 456 | !!Doctor Emira i'Kallia t'Vraehn |
| 457 | -->'''Gender and Species:''' Romulan female\ |
| 458 | '''Homeworld:''' Unknown\ |
| 459 | '''Position:''' Chief Medical Officer\ |
| 460 | '''Headcanon Actor:''' [[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parminder_Nagra Parminder Nagra]] |
| 461 | |
| 462 | Chief medical officer of the ''Aen'rhien''. |
| 463 | |
| 464 | ---- |
| 465 | * OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Emira is unimpressed with Jaleh Khoroushi's insistence on following religious law in not taking an oral vaccine during Ramadan, calling her a "ridiculous Terrhasu". |
| 466 | * WhatTheHellHero: In ''Fanfic/PeaceForgedInFire'' she points out a painful aspect of Sahuel's backstory, the mistaken killing of a group of refugees that prompted her to defect to the Republic. |
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